US Postal Service Electric Vehicle Flop

Steve R.

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A Biden administration plan to create a “green” fleet of postal vehicles has churned out a mere 250 electric mail trucks in just over two years — after shelling out taxpayer funds meant to build thousands — leaving Republicans raging at the multibillion-dollar “boondoggle.”
The electrification of local delivery vehicles such as USPS mail trucks, UPS, and FedEx would something that everyone could get behind. Apparently, the attempt by Democrats to electrify the USPS mail truck fleet is flopping. Based on anecdotal unproven evidence, it appears to be suffering from the same (partisan) bureaucratic inefficiencies (money laundering?) suffered by the likes of USAID and the California's high speed rail fiasco. I suppose that since UPS and FedEx have not voluntarily moved towards vehicle electrification that there might be some economic reasons for that. I wonder if the DOGE team uncovered this USPS boondoggle? Hopefully, this program can be cleaned-up and completed.

PS: Seems that golf courses have successfully transitioned to electric golf carts.
 
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I don't know about USPS but most of the FEDEX I see in my area are electric. Also a ton of Amazon trucks (small delivery)

The train boondoggle was rightfully pulled.
 
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Only the government could make such a mess out of electrifying the USPS and UPS local fleets. Too bad they keep doing this crap with my money.
 
I don't know about USPS but most of the FEDEX I see in Orange County Ca are electric. They've been around for a while.
Orange County doesn't have winter. Winter makes electric vehicles more difficult because of low battery life in cold weather.
 
The train boondoggle was rightfully pulled.
And Trump is being sued for pulling the remaining allocated funding. If the people of California had a modicum of common sense, the project would have been cancelled 10 years ago when it became obvious that it was never going to happen, ever. It was just a money pit.
 
And Trump is being sued for pulling the remaining allocated funding. If the people of California had a modicum of common sense, the project would have been cancelled 10 years ago when it became obvious that it was never going to happen, ever. It was just a money pit.
If we had a modicum of common sense, Newsome wouldn't be our Governor, just sayin.
 

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